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Friday, June 24, 2011

Dr. Sears Zone Diet Review & Giveaway

I was very excited to be able to review Dr. Sears' Zone Diet products for 2 weeks. I have struggled with my weight for many years and my issue is that I absolutely love carbs. They, however, seem to hate me. With the Zone Diet products, you can eat real food including carbs! I loved this idea!

About Zone Diet:

The Zone Diet is now the easiest diet to follow for a lifetime with the introduction of Zone Foods. Their new baking technology has removed excess carbohydrates from the foods (pasta, pizza, bread and even the cookies) that used to make you fat and replaced it with protein that keeps you in the Zone while dramatically reducing hunger. You can finally enjoy great tasting foods you love to eat with the desired balance of protein, carbohydrate and fat while you burn fat faster and control hunger throughout the day.

The key to the Zone 1-2-3 Program is maintaining hormonal balance to reduce cellular inflammation. This means that every time you make a food choice, your hormones are going to change depending on what you eat.
Once you learn how to make the correct food choices to control you hormones, you have the key to silencing inflammatory genes. Remember, if you are overweight, it is most likely that you are genetically pre-disposed to gain weight. It's not fair, but with the Zone 1-2-3 Program you have a clinically proven system to silence those genes that would otherwise cause you to gain weight in spite of your best intentions.

My Thoughts:
I received the 2 week ZoneFast Weight Loss Program to review. I was honestly expecting the food to taste chemically or have no flavor. I was shocked about how good the products were. They sent bagels, cookies, bagel chips, flat breads, regular bread slices, pasta, pizza crust(yes! you can have pizza!) granola, cinnamon swirl bread, rolls and much more. All you need to do to use this diet is eat these products, along with some fruits and vegetables, as you normally would use them and you will lose weight. An example of my day: For Breakfast-2 slices of cinnamon swirl bread with natural peanut butter and 4 ounces of cottage cheese. For Lunch-2 slices of multigrain bread with sliced turkey, lettuce, tomato and mustard with cucumber slices on the side. For dinner-A package of their pasta with marinara sauce with broccoli mixed in, with a salad on the side. Snack-package of 2 chocolate chunk cookies.

The foods tasted just like regular ones in my opinion. I couldn't tell they were "special" diet ones. I noticed I was fuller quicker and the fullness lasted 4-5 hours on average. I was no longer always thinking about food! My sweet tooth cravings were completely gone and I was no longer eating mindlessly. The package also included a 2 week supply of Daily Essentials. Daily Essentials are a combination of high-purity OmegaRx and Zone Polyphenols in a convenient daily package you can take with you wherever you go. The convenient once-a-day packs provide all the essential nutrients that amplify the ability of Zone Foods to reduce cellular inflammation. Together with our ZoneFast meals, you now have all the dietary components of the Zone 1-2-3 Program for the fastest possible fat loss.

In the 2 weeks on the program, I lost 12lbs. I haven't been able to lose 12lbs over the past several years, let alone in 2 weeks.

Overall, if you love carbs and want to lose any amount of weight, this diet will work! If I can lose, anyone can! Seriously! My only complaint would be the cost. The ZoneFast 2 week weight loss program runs $179.00. You do have the option to just purchase the foods, which you can also customize your order if you so choose, at $67.00 per week on AutoShip. It's $74.50 per week otherwise. So on AutoShip without Daily Essentials, you would be looking at $268.00 per month plus shipping. Daily Essentials is another $14.85 per week on AutoShip. $16.50 per week otherwise.

Buy: You can purchase this same 2 week ZoneFast Weight Loss Program at the Zone Diet website for $179.00.

Leave a comment and tell me why you want to try Zone Diet foods. Leave your email address in the comment as well or I won't be able to contact you if you win. This entry must be done before any others can be counted.

EXTRA ENTRIES:(Worth one entry EACH)

-"Like" Zone Diet on Facebook and leave your Facebook name in a comment.

-Follow Zone Diet on Twitter and leave your Twitter handle in a comment.

You must be 18 or older to enter and live in the US. 3 winners will be picked via Random.org and will be emailed. Winners will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner(s) will be picked. Giveaway ends Friday, July 15th at 8:00pm Eastern Time.

Disclosure: I received a complementary sample in order to facilitate a review. No other compensation was received. All opinions were honest and my own. Weight loss amounts may vary from person to person.

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comments:

ok i told the kids if I ever won anything like this they could have a week of all their favorites (don't woy they like vegies and whole wheat pizza) have lost 50 pounds and am in the rut zone where if I get a boost maybe I will get back moving in losing weight

From a big fat yeast roll to a sourdough cinnamon sugar pretzel carbs are my weakness.It also doesn't help that they are also my husbands weakness as well.I would love to be able to try these with my husband and see if they would be a better choice for us.

I would love to win this for my wife. She has wanted to try this for so long and would be thrilled to have this. We love your blog and have learned so much from it. Thank you for giving me the chance to make a dream of my wife's come true. Good luck to everyone!